Celtic boss makes confession over having to 'rely' on key Hoops star

Celtic supervisor Ange Postecoglou admits he is pleased to have taken the attacking burden off Wishaw's David Turnbull.

The midfielder has solely just lately returned from a hamstring harm suffered in December's League Cup closing victory towards Hibs.

It got here after a primary half of the season the place the Scotland worldwide performed each few days commonly for the Hoops, as they adjusted to a brand new time period following a disastrous bid for 10 Premiership titles in succession.

Turnbull is on the bench for in the present day's essential derby with Rangers, which might transfer his aspect six factors forward within the title race. He has 9 targets and 7 assists from 35 video games.

Postecoglou is pleased to not be needing to lean on Wishaw's Celtic star: "When you concentrate on what we’ve needed to cope with this yr and the place we’re in proper now.

"We’ve proved to be a reasonably resilient group of gamers. You'll be able to’t do this except you could have a extremely sturdy mentality and have tackled each problem in the fitting method.

"Nobody can say this group of gamers has had a straightforward run at any stage this season.

“No matter challenges we face, we’ll have choices. It’s truthful to say that within the early a part of the season we needed to depend on Kyogo and David Turnbull in an attacking sense.

“However proper now we've got a number of threats and a number of artistic avenues.”

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